I am a historian of early modern Europe, with a PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science from Indiana University, Bloomington (2011).

My research focuses on early modern science, its interactions with the early modern humanities (especially antiquarianism), and practical knowledge. I also have long experience working on digital history projects (The Chymistry of Isaac Newton, The Newton Project).

I studied and worked in the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Germany. I am now based in Berlin, Germany, and am currently working on a book on the early modern study of ancient measures, under contract with Oxford University Press.

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Recent work:

“Antiquarian Experiments. The Early Trials and Tests in the Farnese Congius,1540–1630.” (peer-reviewed and accepted for publication as a part of a journal cluster I am editing).

“Alchemy and the Electric Spirit in Isaac Newton’s General Scholium.” in S. Ducheyne, S. Mandelbrote and S. Snobelen (eds.), Newton’s General Scholium After 300 Years. Brill (forthcoming).

“Francis Bacon and the History of Early Parallel Trials.” (in preparation).

“The Early Modern Study of Ancient Measures in Comparative Perspective: A Preliminary Investigation.” In: Dmitri Levitin and Ian Maclean, eds., The Worlds of Knowledge and the Classical Tradition in the Early Modern Age: Comparative Approaches. Brill (2021)

Editor of The Exploration and Experimentation on the Weight and Density of Substances in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries, Special Issue of Early Science and Medicine 25.4 (2020)

Johannes Kepler and the Exploration of the Weight of Substances in the Long Sixteenth Century. Early Science and Medicine, 25.4 (2020)

Beyond Recipes. The Baconian Natural and Experimental Histories as an Epistemic Genre. Centaurus 62.3 (2020)